Pieter Cleppe writes about the decrease in support for free trade in the EU:

There is, for example, the brand-new EU agreement on a “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism,” or CBAM, an EU “climate import tariff,” which may well violate WTO rules as well as burden Europe’s already suffering manufacturing sector, given how it would drive up the cost of imports of raw resources.
And then there are a whole set of EU regulations presented as a framework to protect the environment but that, in reality, are all about protectionism. The most blatant is a proposed EU law on mandatory due diligence to stop deforestation in supply chains. This imposes a duty on enterprises to carry out investigations sufficient to ensure that goods in their supply chain have not been produced on deforested or degraded land anywhere in the world.

Barbara Comstock writes about how progressive antitrust efforts against app stores would erode online-safety protections:

Congress is currently trying to sneak through a progressive proposal, called the Open App Markets Act, into an end-of-year package. The bill is based on a wrongheaded view of market competition and would represent a redefinition of antitrust away from the consumer-welfare standard. But it would also remove many of the online guardrails on which American families like mine rely.
Being a parent and grandparent can be challenging in the digital age, but technology can also make our lives easier. While we worry about young children online, we now have more tools to protect children, online and in person, than we did when my children were young. There are also more tools available to care for seniors and provide them assistance. Online health care surged during the pandemic and is here to stay. It helps improve health-care outcomes for every age group and makes keeping track of medications and services easier.